Learn Through Quotations

“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”

“The purpose of life is to fight maturity.”

“Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.”

“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”

“One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.”

“Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away.”

“Childhood is short, maturity is forever.”

“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

“Someone says, Boys will be boys, he forgot to add, Boys will be men.”

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

“Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.”

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”

“The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.”